The tanks holding contaminated water at Fukushima were built in a hurry, with quality control set aside.

Maybe the haste was necessary at the time — but, if so, they should have built more solid replacement tanks once the water was initially contained.

Even higher radiation levels have been found near the tanks.

It is impossible to keep the cost of nuclear power down, given all the risks.

It is an exaggeration to describe a nuclear reactor as a "slow motion detonation", like describing your metabolism as a "slow motion fire". But that doesn't invalidate the conclusions.

The Egyptian military government arrests any sort of dissidents, even leftist, and people who get in their way, on the pretext that they are "Islamists".

A US appeals court decided in favor of vulture funds that are betting they can destroy plans to restructure the debt of bankrupt countries.

The US is using a manipulable international organization to stop the EU from taxing airlines for their CO₂ emissions.

The Obama regime is trying to forbid journalist Barrett Brown (and his lawyers) from talking to the media.

Brown's charges mainly have to do with posting a link to a web page where data obtained from Stratfor had been posted by others.

He also posted a page of violent threats against a US agent who was hounding him. Brown he seems to be guilty on this one point, so I cannot claim he has done nothing wrong. However, the other charges raise a more important issue — Obama, as usual, is attacking freedom of the press.

Even if they gag Barrett Brown, others including me will continue informing Americans about the injustice of this case, and that Obama is the enemy of journalism and democracy in the US.

Later: the gag order was issued.

We can make the US government regret this by talking about the case even more.